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Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and...

This analysis of the politics and culture of Japan during the period of the Second World War argues that the wartime regime, repressive as it was, was very different from contemporary totalitarian...

"Extraordinary...Rich in irony and regret...[the] people and settings are vividly realized and his prose [is] compelling in its simplicity."THE WALL STREET JOURNALAs the world slips into the throes...

Winner of both the National Book Award for Arts and Letters and the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory was one of the most original and...

A deeply personal meditation on the haunting power of American photos and films of the 1940sWartime Kiss is a personal meditation on the haunting power of American photographs and films from World...

Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of...

24 projects to sew + knit + crochet + craft + repurpose Let's make some memories. Handmade Heirlooms invites readers to create projects that have significant meaning for the maker or the...

Portrait of a marriage and a recreation of civilian life in wartime Europe.

A penetrating examination, based on recently released archival material and private papers, of wartime colonial controversies.

In this exceptional study, the author goes beyond the sphere of party politics to explore the industrial aspects of French wartime history.

This is the official history of the German occupation of the Channel Islands taken from government papers, war cabinet and German files and the Channel Islands own wartime papers.

History of dime stores told through photographs of collectibles; Kewpie dolls fantasies and wartime souvenirs. Joyous memories of childhood kept alive from the 1940s.

This provocative and entertaining selection of Strachey's best short pieces (published to celebrate the centenary of his birth) contains thirty essays, ranging in subject from Pope and Dostoevsky to...

Home Fronts offers a vivid cross-section of American intellectual, political, and cultural life in wartime over the past century. This work collects brief excerpts, each given historical context...

Franklin Hata, a Japanese man of Korean birth living in suburban New York, seems on the surface to be living a quiet and harmonious life, but actually he remains tormented by his wartime love for a...

A biography of Waugh's last twenty-seven years takes readers through the writer's wartime experiences and discusses his most renowned works and his relationships with Lady Diana Cooper, Graham...

What does it mean to live during wartime away from the battle zone? What is it like for citizens to go about daily routines while their country sends soldiers to kill and be killed across the globe?...

The contributors to this volume look at the effects of World War II on British society, on employment policy, planning, health care, education, demography, and on groups such as women, businessmen,...

Now back in print, these witty, insightful ssays on fashion, cinema, wartime, and everyday life demonstrate why Eileen Chang was and is a major icon of twentieth-century Chinese literature.Eileen...